A red or a blue Volvo? Only the driver counts...
by Henk Ruyssenaars - Former Scandinavia correspondent.
FPF - Sept. 18th - 2006 - After yesterdays elections in Sweden, the rightwing management plans fully joining NATO's war machine, selling $27.6 billion of tax paid state firms, and plans to better cooperate with the European Union. Social services will be cut: 'to create more work' - "We have common and well-prepared policies, but we also agreed that the judgment of the electorate must be a success with the forthcoming government" - said Sweden's next PM Fredrik Reinfeldt to TT, the Swedish media information service. Knowing 'the electorate' has no say for the next four years.
Reinfeldt and the other Alliance party leaders will negotiate the ministerial posts over the next two weeks, and these must be decided by October 2nd. Parliament opens the following day and Reinfeldt will be Sweden's new prime minister. "In a month there is a new budget and I hope to be able to present the new gov't on October 6th," he said. Internationally shares in many of the big multinational companies rose about two percent after Reinfeldt's election 'victory' which should say enough about 'trusting the new Volvo driver'.
What in reality has happened in Sweden, and mainstream media 'forget' to report, is that 'the Volvo they are driving has changed color from red to blue' - but the driver(s) still remain the same. The political front now openly presented as a rightwing/conservative 'Alliance', is however something new to many inhabitants of the 9 million country, of which more than half believed they lived in some kind of 'social-democracy' and voted for it.*
PRIME MINISTER OLOF PALME WAS GUNNED DOWN
Because of the fact that the so called 'socialists' have ruled Sweden for close to seven decades - they also did a lot of good things - many of the party-politruks had turned into little 'Dons' who thought they could do no wrong. And some really behaved like it. Prime minister Göran Persson alienated everybody because 'he was looking down on people' and his arrogance, camouflaging his insecurity. But Sweden was earlier brutally shaken awake - and as some say 'lost it's innocence' - when Prime minister Olof Palme was gunned down in the street in the Swedish capital Stockholm on Febr. 28, 1986.* The naked face of global political aggression was shown.
After researching this political murder for one year I explained my conclusions in a full page article in one of the biggest Swedish newspapers (GP). Olof Palme was - according to my research - killed because he did not go along with the big illegal multinational weapons trade and electronics sales, also by the Swedish firms of Bofors and Ericsson. Nor did he accept orders from Washington. He was never invited to the US by it's gov't, and seen as a 'stumbling block' concerning profits by the criminal multinationals. The professional 'acute lead poisoning' ended their problems and his life. He was quite an acceptable man, Olof Palme.
IN CHARGE OF MOST BANKING AND INDUSTRY
But, to keep it short and easy: Sweden as a country, and as an important part of the global production unit, has for ages been run by two 'front' families. The Wallenberg dynasty - yes, Raoul too: http://tinyurl.com/ogcd6 - and the Bonnier clan. The Wallenberg group - and sub-groups, divisions etc. - is in charge of most banking and industry - everything from airplanes to arms - and the Bonniers people take care of 'education' by for instance the media, and printing school- university- and other books. So the Swedes live in a world of their own. Paying the highest taxes in the world and Bonniers papers and other literature confirming daily that everything is OK in their little kingdom.
So today all mainstream media report that after many years of Social Democrat rule, the new Alliance has promised to cut taxes (for whom?) and as new 'boss' Reinfeldt said: "to make the welfare state more 'work friendly' by cutting benefits that decrease the incentive to get a job." The whip is heard cracking. One half of the Swedes voters now wonders how the other half can believe the usual lies and this kind of 'hot air' promises - like always making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
THE INCOMING PRIME MINISTER FAVORS SWEDEN JOINING NATO
Internationally today the 'news' is spread that ''The incoming prime minister favors Sweden joining NATO if there is broad agreement. He wants Sweden more involved in the EU but has no plans for a referendum on the euro currency in the next four years. Swedes rejected adopting the euro in 2003." - However, the managers of Sweden know that adopting the Euro has shown to be very profitable for those central bankers who do it, and are not expected to wait four more years.
Shoving their Euros down the throat of the people in different countries is making billions for those bankers who enforce it. To name one example: in The Netherlands people got poorer and were shocked to find out - the gov't didn't tell them - that prices had risen forty-nine-dot-one percent within two years after the 'introduction' of the never asked for Euro. This according to a Haagse Post - a dutch weekly - investigation, which very fast disappeared and never again openly was spoken about. And it is expected that Sweden will go that Via Dolorosa too, now the few brakes left on the down hill ride are gone too.
SWEDEN THE MIDDLE WAY
Seventy years ago Marquis W. Childs wrote a book that became food for thought and a beacon for humanitarians: 'Sweden: The Middle Way' [Yale University Press, 1936] - in which the Swedish model of governing - small whip and big carrot - positively was described. With the highest taxes in the world, but people getting much in return: free medicare, education, social services, acceptable pensions a.s.o. What's left of that dream will be further broken down, a further shredding of the social fabric can be expected.
What the Swedes now face are the multinational totalitarians, with their gloves taken off. 'The Middle Way' has ended, and from now on it will be a big whip and small carrots.
Red or blue: the drivers are still the same.
HR
Official site voting in Sweden - Url.: http://www.val.se/in_english/index.html
Google mainstream selection Sweden + election - Url.: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&tab=wn&q=Sweden
Unsolved political murder of Swedish PM Olof Palme - Url.: http://www.karisable.com/palme.htm
Sweden - government web site - Url.: http://www.sweden.gov.se/
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FPF - Sept. 18th - 2006 - After yesterdays elections in Sweden, the rightwing management plans fully joining NATO's war machine, selling $27.6 billion of tax paid state firms, and plans to better cooperate with the European Union. Social services will be cut: 'to create more work' - "We have common and well-prepared policies, but we also agreed that the judgment of the electorate must be a success with the forthcoming government" - said Sweden's next PM Fredrik Reinfeldt to TT, the Swedish media information service. Knowing 'the electorate' has no say for the next four years.
Reinfeldt and the other Alliance party leaders will negotiate the ministerial posts over the next two weeks, and these must be decided by October 2nd. Parliament opens the following day and Reinfeldt will be Sweden's new prime minister. "In a month there is a new budget and I hope to be able to present the new gov't on October 6th," he said. Internationally shares in many of the big multinational companies rose about two percent after Reinfeldt's election 'victory' which should say enough about 'trusting the new Volvo driver'.
What in reality has happened in Sweden, and mainstream media 'forget' to report, is that 'the Volvo they are driving has changed color from red to blue' - but the driver(s) still remain the same. The political front now openly presented as a rightwing/conservative 'Alliance', is however something new to many inhabitants of the 9 million country, of which more than half believed they lived in some kind of 'social-democracy' and voted for it.*
PRIME MINISTER OLOF PALME WAS GUNNED DOWN
Because of the fact that the so called 'socialists' have ruled Sweden for close to seven decades - they also did a lot of good things - many of the party-politruks had turned into little 'Dons' who thought they could do no wrong. And some really behaved like it. Prime minister Göran Persson alienated everybody because 'he was looking down on people' and his arrogance, camouflaging his insecurity. But Sweden was earlier brutally shaken awake - and as some say 'lost it's innocence' - when Prime minister Olof Palme was gunned down in the street in the Swedish capital Stockholm on Febr. 28, 1986.* The naked face of global political aggression was shown.
After researching this political murder for one year I explained my conclusions in a full page article in one of the biggest Swedish newspapers (GP). Olof Palme was - according to my research - killed because he did not go along with the big illegal multinational weapons trade and electronics sales, also by the Swedish firms of Bofors and Ericsson. Nor did he accept orders from Washington. He was never invited to the US by it's gov't, and seen as a 'stumbling block' concerning profits by the criminal multinationals. The professional 'acute lead poisoning' ended their problems and his life. He was quite an acceptable man, Olof Palme.
IN CHARGE OF MOST BANKING AND INDUSTRY
But, to keep it short and easy: Sweden as a country, and as an important part of the global production unit, has for ages been run by two 'front' families. The Wallenberg dynasty - yes, Raoul too: http://tinyurl.com/ogcd6 - and the Bonnier clan. The Wallenberg group - and sub-groups, divisions etc. - is in charge of most banking and industry - everything from airplanes to arms - and the Bonniers people take care of 'education' by for instance the media, and printing school- university- and other books. So the Swedes live in a world of their own. Paying the highest taxes in the world and Bonniers papers and other literature confirming daily that everything is OK in their little kingdom.
So today all mainstream media report that after many years of Social Democrat rule, the new Alliance has promised to cut taxes (for whom?) and as new 'boss' Reinfeldt said: "to make the welfare state more 'work friendly' by cutting benefits that decrease the incentive to get a job." The whip is heard cracking. One half of the Swedes voters now wonders how the other half can believe the usual lies and this kind of 'hot air' promises - like always making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
THE INCOMING PRIME MINISTER FAVORS SWEDEN JOINING NATO
Internationally today the 'news' is spread that ''The incoming prime minister favors Sweden joining NATO if there is broad agreement. He wants Sweden more involved in the EU but has no plans for a referendum on the euro currency in the next four years. Swedes rejected adopting the euro in 2003." - However, the managers of Sweden know that adopting the Euro has shown to be very profitable for those central bankers who do it, and are not expected to wait four more years.
Shoving their Euros down the throat of the people in different countries is making billions for those bankers who enforce it. To name one example: in The Netherlands people got poorer and were shocked to find out - the gov't didn't tell them - that prices had risen forty-nine-dot-one percent within two years after the 'introduction' of the never asked for Euro. This according to a Haagse Post - a dutch weekly - investigation, which very fast disappeared and never again openly was spoken about. And it is expected that Sweden will go that Via Dolorosa too, now the few brakes left on the down hill ride are gone too.
SWEDEN THE MIDDLE WAY
Seventy years ago Marquis W. Childs wrote a book that became food for thought and a beacon for humanitarians: 'Sweden: The Middle Way' [Yale University Press, 1936] - in which the Swedish model of governing - small whip and big carrot - positively was described. With the highest taxes in the world, but people getting much in return: free medicare, education, social services, acceptable pensions a.s.o. What's left of that dream will be further broken down, a further shredding of the social fabric can be expected.
What the Swedes now face are the multinational totalitarians, with their gloves taken off. 'The Middle Way' has ended, and from now on it will be a big whip and small carrots.
Red or blue: the drivers are still the same.
HR
Official site voting in Sweden - Url.: http://www.val.se/in_english/index.html
Google mainstream selection Sweden + election - Url.: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&tab=wn&q=Sweden
Unsolved political murder of Swedish PM Olof Palme - Url.: http://www.karisable.com/palme.htm
Sweden - government web site - Url.: http://www.sweden.gov.se/
* IT'S VERY UNLIKELY, but if you indeed would prefer to unsubscribe from the FPF-list: just send an email in return with the word 'unsubscribe'.
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